"I was reading the dictionary. I thought
it was a poem about everything."
                     --Steven Wright

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Close to ( নিকটে ) The school is very close to our house.
  • Contrary to ( বিপরীত ) His action is contrary to his words.
  • Deal with ( ব্যবহার করা ) He deals well with the customers.
  • Clue to ( সূত্র ) Find out the clue to the mystery.
  • Justice to ( ন্যায় বিচার ) We should do justice to everybody.
  • Sympathy for ( সহানুভূতি ) I have no sympathy for him.

Idioms:

  • At one’s wit’s end ( হতবুদ্ধি ) He was at his wit’s end and did not know what to do.
  • Dead against ( তীব্র বিরোধী ) I am dead against his proposal.
  • End in smoke ( ব্যর্থ হওয়া ) All his plans ended in smoke.
  • By leaps and bounds ( অতি দ্রুতগতিতে ) The population of Bangladesh is increasing by leaps and bounds.
  • Red tape ( লাল ফিতার বাঁধন ; আমলাতান্ত্রিকতা ) Red tapism causes delay in official work.
  • Man of letters ( পন্ডিত লোক ) Sir Ashutosh Mukherjee was a man of letters.